West Coast forward Quinten Lynch is hopeful of remaining at the club despite going through a season he's brutally described as being 'very ordinary'.
Out of contract at the end of 2010, premiership forward Lynch has endured the toughest year of his career, having scored just eight goals from 14 games and being dropped twice to the WAFL.
Despite having posted his lowest goal tally since 2004 as struggling to find form in a young Eagles' line-up, Lynch is hopeful of earning a new deal at the club, despite rumours throughout the year he was heading to the Gold Coast Suns or loomed as potential tradebait.
"I'm a life member of this footy club," declared Lynch. "So I obviously want to stay."
"So that's the stuff that will get sorted out in the off season and I'm not really worried about that at the moment."
When asked about his year so far, 27-year-old Lynch admitted it had been tough, saying extended stays in the WAFL had impacted on him psychologically.
"(My form's been) very ordinary," he said. "Very blunt, very easy question to answer."
"It's been a tough year, no doubt for me."
"You know getting dropped early in the year, it wasn't a nice feeling and hadn't happened before really so it's something I had to cop on the chin and probably work through it."
"It didn't really weigh on my mind," he added, when asked if his confidence took a hit when he was dropped for Round 2.
"It was just something, that when it hasn't happened before, it's something you start thinking about and then probably just, all the storm in the teacup probably weighed on my mind more."
"I walk down the street and everyone asks me a question about that and the first couple of weeks I just shrugged it off and then it went on and on and on, but you know that's something I had to work through and I have and it's history now."
"(I still) haven't recaptured the form that I would like, probably haven't been hitting the scoreboard like I'd like to."
"I think some areas of my game have sort of squared away all right but other areas are just lacking at the moment, so I've got a couple of weeks to rectify that," he said.
Lynch said coach John Worsfold had asked him to work on his kicking into the forward line as poor forward entries by the Eagles have often contributed to costly turnovers.
But the Eagles' veteran, one of the few in an increasingly young side, believes there's light at the end of the tunnel for fans seeing their club finish on the bottom of the ladder for the first time in its history.
"We've (the veterans) just got to help the young blokes out as much as we can and just give them the guidance that they need."
"There's that many of them now they sort of help each other out as well."
"It's interesting times really. It's different. When I came to the footy club, there's only three or four in the team at once. Now there's 13 or 14 of them. It's good fun, but it's also a good challenge."